“We had a lot of high pressure last week and that is now moving east towards Scandinavia, but the winds are moving clockwise and bringing the warm air back over us”

Charlie Powell, Met Office forecaster

But other parts of the country were cooler. Parts of the East Midlands and Newcastle saw temperatures as low as 11C.

Meanwhile, East Anglia and parts of south-west England shivered at 12C.

Met Office forecaster Charlie Powell said: “We had a lot of high pressure last week and that is now moving east towards Scandinavia, but the winds are moving clockwise and bringing the warm air back over us.”

He said: “We are expecting Tuesday to be sunny with a few outbreaks of heavy and thundery showers so people should have a brolly handy. It will still be quite warm with temperatures into the mid-teens.”

Meanwhile, there was misery for those who jetted off to Italy after fog stranded hundreds of Brits.

Among those stranded at Rome’s Ciampino airport after Ryanair cancelled two late flights was former EastEnders star Larry Lamb, 66.

He tweeted: “What a nightmare... lesson learned .... last flight of the day a no no.”

Other passengers tweeted complaints and some hijacked the terminal’s tannoy in a bid to embarrass staff into helping them.